Coal Collection (page 10)

Coal - Steam Engine - 1892
A diagram showing the use of a steam engine in a coal mine. Date: 1892

FIREMAN
London characters: Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward, and with a coal fire burning in every hearth, the FIREMAN is all too often called to cope with it. Date: circa 1870

SHOVELLING COAL
Men shovel coal into horse drawn carts above the ground. Date: 1930s

COAL / CHINA / MULE
A mule at the pit-head of a British coal mine in Kailan, North China. Date: circa 1930

KAILAN COAL MINES 1930S
Chinese miners pushing trolleys of coal on rails at the (British) Kailan coal mines, China. Date: 1930s

Cartoon, A Physical Force Chartist Arming for the Fight. Satirical comment on Chartism. Date: 1848

SAFETY LAMP IN MINE
Safety lamps, invented by Davy in England and modified by Mueseler, in use in a French coal-mine Date: 19th century

COAL / RHONDDA FETE
Fete in celebration of Winning the Coal on the Rhondda branch of the Taff Vale Railway Date: 1851

LIGHTING HIS PIPE
While a young man smokes a very long pipe, his partner lights it with a hot coal from the stove Date: 1850

FRENCH MINERS, LIFT SHAFT
French miners descending a shaft Date: 1869

Pony tramming 1889
Pony tramming in an English colliery Date: 1889

MINING ENGINEERS / 1869
A consultation of engineers in a French mine Date: 1869

BLANZY MINE, FRANCE 1867
Exterior of mine at Blanzy, France Date: 1867

Taverdons Drill in use in France Date: 1893

COAL / COMPRESSED FUELS
Manufacture of compressed fuels Date: 1884

Miners in Bethune 1861
A group of miners in Bethune, France Date: 1861

BETHUNE MINE FRANCE 1861
Exterior of a coal mine in Bethune, France. Date: 1861

1869 / COAL MINE / BORING
Boring operations in a French mine Date: 1869

FRENCH COAL MINE 1867
Interior of French mine. Date: 1867

FRENCH MINERS 1870
A group of French miners Date: 1870

SPANISH COAL SELLER
A Spanish coal seller of Valencia Date: 1874

Trapper seated 1867
TRAPPER AND PUTTERS A small boy opens and closes the trapdoor while another child pushes a laden wagon along a narrow gallery. Date: 1867

Pits and pitmen - night-shift 1871
Night-shift down the pits, half an hour before the shift starts at five-thirty in the evening, the miners meet on the pit-heap for a chat by a fire, this engraving was took from Seaham

Street Scene of Glasgow
Street scene with shops and street traffic including a coal cart Date: 1825

Wet day in Piccadilly, Central London
A wet day in Piccadilly, Central London, with pedestrians and a hansom cab. Date: 1886

Old Coal Exchange
Engaving depicting the coal exchange that was first mentioned in 1758 in what is now Lower Thames Street

New Coal Exchange
Engaving depicting the coal exchange rebuilt 1847-49, to the designs of JB Bunning. Date: circa 1850

Three cylinder compound express engine, Ionic, London & North Western Railway Company. Date: circa 1904

Smoking chimneys, early morning in Blaenavon, South Wales
Early morning and the coal fires smoke from chimneys in Blaenavon, South Wales. The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Blackbird on fingerpost, Gloucestershire, England
A male blackbird sits on an old wooden fingerpost sign in Gloucestershire, England Date: 1988

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 5
Alfred Gee pushes a coal truck to the entrance of his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 4
Alfred Gee working his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 3
Alfred Gee working his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

Technological advances of Home Heating - from coal to gas
The Advantages offered by the advances in Home Heating systems, shifting from coal to gas - the housemaid sends the chimney sweep away as her new gas boiler makes no soot and saves work and worry

Promo postcard for W. E. Meyer & Co. Coal Agents, Bermuda
Promotional postcard for W. E. Meyer & Co. S.S. & Coal Agents, Bermuda. Date: 1904

Coal scuttle
Copper and brass urn-shaped coal scuttle on three legs, possibly manufactured by Henry Loveridge & Co. Wolverhampton, c.1900-1910. Date: c.1900-1910

Coalman delivering coal in a street of houses. Date: circa 1970s

Coal Mines, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone - a view of the coal mine buildings beside a railway track. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Tyrone; Coalisland). Date: circa early 1900s

Female contortionist Diana Gaye making tea
The female contortionist Diana Gaye in the kitchen with her mother, making a pot of tea. (2 of 2) Date: 1971

Coal mining. Belgium
Coal mining. Herscheuse Mining. Quaregnon County. Belgium. Colored engraving from 1884

A railway steam engine and coal car, Chicago and Alton Railr
A railway locomotive steam engine and coal car, Chicago and Alton Railroad, USA Date: circa 1910

Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA
A chef at work in the Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA, specialising in lobsters, steaks, fish and chops broiled over the coals of the old forges. 1941

Breaker boy eating during a food break at a coal mine in Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA Date: circa 1900

WW2 poster, Save fuel for battle! Save coal, gas, electricity, paraffin, Ministry of Fuel and Power. Showing soldiers and ships in a battle scene. Date: circa 1944

Battersea Power Station - First Phase Operational
Battersea Power Station, London - on the banks of the River Thames - built in two phases. This is the coal-fired power station in 1934, with the first phase operational (two towers - the A Station)

Police escorting a cart during Dundee riots, Scotland
Policemen escorting a cart to the docks during riots in Dundee, Scotland. Strikers trying to prevent the delivery of coal fought with the police and rioted: four constables were seriously injured

Coal mining with a horse
Coal mine in Hoganas.South of Sweden. A horse is lowered down a coal mine shaft

Coal train, Great Western Railway, South Wales
A one hundred truck coal train on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales. The trucks belong to the John Lancaster & Co colliery company of Nant-y-glo (Nantyglo), and bear a griffin symbol

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